Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.